"When heroin hit, jazz’s day was already beginning to fade."
"Jazz aficionados constitute a left-leaning community and always have. Thus, the literature tends to treat the jazz-heroin epidemic mainly as a story of racism..."
"The 1950s were when jazz truly lost its black audience."
City Journal is published by the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.
Thanks for the heads up, Ken. To be released on Sept. 6, available in CD, vinyl and download formats on Bandcamp. Coincidently, Sept. 6 also marks the return of Bandcamp Friday!